The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn’t a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation.

The New Yorker has set a standard in literary journalism for generations, and The New Yorker Radio Hour gives it a radio voice for the first time.

Host and The New Yorker editor David Remnick delivered a remarkable speech about the power of radio and The New Yorker Radio Hour’s goals to the Public Radio Program Directors conference in 2015. Here it is: